[Sderby] Disabling mouse pointer

Ian Sabey sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Sep 13 05:58:00 2002


There is a patch available for mingetty which does the automatic login, I 
don't have the URL to hand, but a search should find it. Failing that I 
could send it to you.

For disabling the cursor, I'm not sure, but there may be something in 
xset, try the man page.

HTH
Ian.


On Thursday 12 Sep 2002 3:20 pm, you wrote:

> As I want to use the laptop guts without keyboard or mouse then I have
> two issues:
>
> 1) I want the box to automatically login with a fixed username and and
> password. 2) I need to start an X server but hide the mouse pointer,
> starting X is no problem, hiding the cursor is the problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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